January 28, 2014 at 10:49pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer prefaces her third novel by noting that some of its more putatively dubious plot points are in fact…Read More »
An engineer by training, author Bruce Kirkby has turned his aversion to the nine-to-five rat race and a desk job…Read More »
October 24, 2005 at 04:19pm | Filed under: Reference
Long before Twister whirled across the cinema screen, librarians were having trouble keeping enough weather books on the shelf to…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 04:21pm | Filed under:
Not the sort of book to be consumed in the hubbub of one’s favourite tapas bar, Endless Propaganda is a…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 03:44pm | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Set against the backdrop of American minor hockey and suburban Toronto, Ray Robertson’s second novel, Heroes, is a pleasurable read,…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 03:27pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
A collection of short stories can act as a haunted house (seemingly unlinked episodes building to a larger effect or…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 02:51pm | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Christopher sees interesting possibilities in the lump of red play clay he finds in the basement. He shapes it into…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 02:26pm | Filed under: Picture Books
In the stories of the Brothers Grimm, children are cautioned not to stray into the forest, lest they be gobbled…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 02:19pm | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Tolstoy’s chestnut about families – that all happy ones resemble each other, while each unhappy one is unique – is…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 02:05pm | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Gofrette, a chunky black-and-white cat done in bold outline and felt marker, first appeared in a wallpaper pattern by Brasset…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 12:08pm | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books